Born tangled in a cord
— made a career untangling things.

I was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck. The resulting cerebral palsy made my handwriting unreadable, so my first-grade teacher, Ms. Edwards, sat me down at a computer. That one accommodation — type, don't write — is the entire reason for this site, this résumé, this career.

By high school I was running a network for a school district as a free intern. By 19 I had filed an LLC and was billing my first client. I spent the next decade growing Definition Systems, then Frazier Industries, doing the unglamorous work of keeping small businesses online — VoIP, databases, backup, the cables in the wall. Some of that history is collected in the older posts.

These days I'm an automation engineer at AGJ Systems, building tooling that takes the rote parts of MSP work and hands them back as time. I write debugging stories and homelab notes here, ship a small catalog of one-time-purchase iOS apps, take a lot of photographs, and listen to too much music.

The most important thing I've ever built is Bob — a check-on-me system that started as a phone notifier and is now Check on Mine, a service for the rest of us who live alone and aren't sure anyone would notice for a while.

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